Transfer Files Quickly Across Your Devices Using Feem

Android users love AirDroid, while Apple users swear by AirDrop for fast, hassle-free file transfers. So how would you transfer files if you had a Windows PC, an iPad and an Android phone? Try Feem, an ad-supported cross-platform app that is available for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and Windows. Cloud storage apps are one way to send files across, but they aren’t the best if you simply want to send files to colleague who’s sitting three terminals across. However, if your work isn’t wedded to one ecosystem, transferring files between devices can be a bit of a headache. Feem is...

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Transfer Files Quickly Across Your Devices Using Feem

Android users love AirDroid, while Apple users swear by AirDrop for fast, hassle-free file transfers. So how would you transfer files if you had a Windows PC, an iPad and an Android phone? Try Feem, an ad-supported cross-platform app that is available for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and Windows. Cloud storage apps are one way to send files across, but they aren’t the best if you simply want to send files to colleague who’s sitting three terminals across. However, if your work isn’t wedded to one ecosystem, transferring files between devices can be a bit of a headache. Feem is...

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Just a Single Page Website: 3 Reasons Why It Can Work For Your Idea

One thing I love about the Internet is how it perennially exists in a state of evolution, adopting new ideas and discarding ones which have ceased to work. Take Flash, for example. From the mid-90s to the mid-2000s, it was the dominant tool used to add interactivity and panache to websites. Countless security vulnerabilities and the mass adoption of touch-screen mobile devices later, Flash has faded into irrelevance, declining both on the desktop and being a non-player in the mobile field. Another concept which is being heavily challenged by the rise of the touch-screen device is traditional menu and multiple-page...

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Dropbox DMCA, HTC One Benchmarks, BlackBerry Typo, Eat24 Facebook [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Dropbox denies DMCA disaster, HTC One M8 benchmarks, BlackBerry blocks sales of Typo, Microsoft stops snooping, Avast launches Grimefighter, and Eat24 breaks up with Facebook. The Dropbox DMCA Copyright Conundrum wow. @dropbox DMCA takedown in personal folders… this is new to me. http://ift.tt/1k8Oz1p — darrell whitelaw (@darrellwhitelaw) March 30, 2014 One simple tweet (embedded above) was all it took for users of Dropbox to raise concerns over the company’s policy towards the storing and sharing of copyrighted files. However, it turns out this isn’t a new revelation and not an example of the company changing...

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Dropbox DMCA, HTC One Benchmarks, BlackBerry Typo, Eat24 Facebook [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Dropbox denies DMCA disaster, HTC One M8 benchmarks, BlackBerry blocks sales of Typo, Microsoft stops snooping, Avast launches Grimefighter, and Eat24 breaks up with Facebook. The Dropbox DMCA Copyright Conundrum wow. @dropbox DMCA takedown in personal folders… this is new to me. http://ift.tt/1k8Oz1p — darrell whitelaw (@darrellwhitelaw) March 30, 2014 One simple tweet (embedded above) was all it took for users of Dropbox to raise concerns over the company’s policy towards the storing and sharing of copyrighted files. However, it turns out this isn’t a new revelation and not an example of the company changing...

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Can You Play Games On A Windows 8 Tablet?

The introduction of Windows 8 made it possible for PC manufacturers to start building full-blown tablet PCs. These run Windows and have the same kind of hardware you’d usually find in a laptop. Some are on par with an ultrabook, and gaming peripheral company Razer sells a gaming tablet called the Edge. This has made users curious about how far they can push the limits of a tablet PC. Can the system run games? And if it can, what are the common limitations? Here’s everything you need to know about gaming on a Windows tablet. The Hardware Question Before delving...

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Which Browser Is Most Secure On Your Old Windows XP System?

You should be upgrading from Windows XP, but we have to face facts — many people won’t upgrade before the end-of-support date. If you’re still using one of those XP computers, the best thing you can do is ditch Internet Explorer for a more modern browser. This is the main thing you can do to make your Windows XP system more secure. Stop Using Internet Explorer Now The most recent version of Internet Explorer available on Windows XP is Internet Explorer 8. This version is already several major versions old — modern versions of IE like Internet Explorer 11 are...

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Google Pal?

If you go to www.google.com/pal, Google redirects the page to: http://ift.tt/1fz0MJv and shows a 404 error message. The redirect suggests that this could be an actual Google page, but it's not yet launched.

Google has many landing pages with information about Google services at google.com/landing: Image Search, Google Now, Cloud Print, India, Thailand, Japan, Chinese New Year, Ramadan and more. Last year's main April Fools' Day joke, Google Nose BETA, was hosted at: http://ift.tt/XRUT1I.



{ Thanks, Florian. }

How Advertisements On Your Website Could Make Or Break You

The Internet as we know it would not exist without advertisements. Ads are necessary for generating revenue from free content and an Internet without ads would be an Internet smothered in subscriptions and paywalls. You don’t have to feel guilty for running ads on your website, but make sure you do it right. Want to know the fastest way to kill your website? Implement ads that are annoying to readers. Indeed, aggressive ads will push readers to install an adblocker and we all know that adblockers kill websites. If you’re going to monetize your site with ads, here are a...

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Does The Fall Of Mt. Gox Mark The Beginning Of The End For Bitcoin? [MUO Debates]

Does 2014 mark the beginning of the end for Bitcoin? Is this the end of the road for electronic currency? Why the melodrama? Well, Mt. Gox, the Bitcoin exchange, was allegedly hit with a series the of thefts totaling an astonishing 745,000 Bitcoins. It was probably just a matter of time, as hackers had been working diligently at breaking into Mt. Gox servers for years and grabbing the loot. Other exchanges claimed that the issues were isolated only to Mt. Gox servers, but that didn’t prevent investors around the world feeling a bit on edge about the security of this...

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Find The Best Animal Healthcare Advice Online

Do you own a pet? Well, MakeUseOf has a number of articles with advice on how to access human medical advice online. A few examples include articles on HealthTap and Doctors on Demand. However, a recent article on how to find reliable medical advice online got a reader asking for information on where to find the same kind of reliable health advice for animals. This article will, hopefully, fill the void. Animal healthcare advice is broadly categorized into two; medical advice for pets and advice for farm animals. There are dozens of online pet healthcare websites but the following are...

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Rank With Your Images: 4 Ways To Make Your Images SEO Friendly

Search engine optimization, typically called SEO, can make or break your site. SEO is the process of increasing your website’s visibility to search engines. It’s a popular topic but there’s one SEO-related issue that tends to be overlooked: image optimization. How much traffic are you losing due to poor image SEO? Yes, it’s true. Image searches can drive a lot of traffic to your website if you know what you’re doing. The trick is to understand how search engines work and format your images accordingly. Here are a few fundamental tips that will get you started. Image SEO Tip #1:...

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Facebook Favorite For Chrome Is A Private Way To Save Posts For Later

Facebook itself only has “Like” and “Share” buttons, both of which publicly tell people what you think. But what if you want to save a post for later without broadcasting or endorsing it? Meet Facebook Favorite for Chrome. Solving A Facebook Problem One of the biggest problems I face on Facebook is that there is no easy mechanism to save a post privately. Sometimes, I come across articles and posts that I don’t like but I want to store them for later reference—there’s no way to do that on Facebook directly. What you Like on Facebook can tell a lot...

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Office For iPad, NSA Database, Twitter Billboard, Google Naps [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Microsoft Office for iPad, NSA phone databases, Twitter’s partnership with Billboard, Facebook’s minor legal victory, Twitter photo tagging and sharing, and grabbing 40 winks with Google Naps. Microsoft Releases Office for iPad Microsoft has released Office for iPad, proving several years of rumors to be true. Office for iPad brings Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to Apple tablets for the first time, following on from Office landing on the iPhone in 2013. Office for iPad is free to download and certain features are available at no extra charge. However, if you want to edit documents rather...

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Google Latitude and Knowledge Graph

Google Latitude was the name of a Google product. When you search for [google latitude], Google now shows the physical coordinates of its headquarters.

This is powered by Knowledge Graph and it's no limited to the Googleplex. It also works for [pentagon latitude], [tour eiffel coordinates] and more.

Google Docs Adds-Ons For Students: These 5 Will Help You Write A Paper

Word-processing for students has long been the domain of Microsoft Word. The recent release of add-ons is making Google Docs an appealing free option. The five add-ons we are about to meet have the potential to become quick favorites for people working on research papers, essays, and collaborative projects. But, are they good enough to make Google Docs the go-to option? Google Docs won’t be toppling Word from the top of the heavy-duty text-editing list anytime soon, but add-ons like these will help keep it in the list of best alternatives to Office. It will make it more attractive for...

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Rearrange Apps in Google's Navigation Menu

Google's navigation menu now lets you rearrange apps using drag and drop. You can now personalize the app launcher, just like you can drag and drop apps in Chrome's app launcher. Unfortunately, you can't add other Google services.

Google Contextual Search

Chrome Beta for Android has a flag called "Enable contextual search". You can find it by opening a new tab, pasting this in the address bar: chrome://flags/#contextual-search and pressing Enter. If you click "Enable" and "Relaunch now" at the bottom of the page, you'll enable this strange feature.

What happens after enabling the feature? Tap a word from a page and Google will display it at the bottom of the page next to other surrounding words and a Google logo. Tap the logo and Chrome sends you to an internal Google page you can't access. The URL starts with: http://ift.tt/1foDdTD and includes the word you've tapped, the context and the URL of the page.



It's not clear what's the goal of this feature, but I assume that Google might show some search results related to the words you've selected and the context.



{ Thanks, Jérôme Flipo. }

The Best of Gmail

Gmail shows an interesting ad for the mobile Gmail app. I spotted the promotional message in the Gmail sidebar: "The official Gmail app. The best of Gmail is only available in the official app. Try it now".

When clicking "Try it now", Gmail shows this inline box with 3 options to get the right Gmail app for your device: sending a link by SMS, scanning a QR code or visiting gmail.com/app on your mobile device.

Facing Writer’s Block? Get The Ideas Flowing With These 3 Daily Rituals

With just a few regular activities, writers can reduce their constant struggle for ideas. Writing is as much about coming up with a good idea as it is about articulating it. But we all know how elusive such ideas can be. Their hide-and-seek tactics have left us with the pesky writer’s block. Some writers live in fear of it, while some others dismiss it as a myth. The bottom line is that the lack of good ideas is one issue many writers face in common. Thankfully, you can overcome it with something as simple as a daily ritual. Here are...

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